This corner of Canaan : essays on Texas in honor of Randolph B. Campbell / edited by Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCaslin, Richard B.

Chipman, Donald E.

Torget, Andrew J., 1978-

Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Texas--History.

Texas.

Texas--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas's history--ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty--to honor Campbell's deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field--as well as rising stars--the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.

Contents:

Teacher, mentor, friend: a reflection / Laura Lyons McLemore

Texas identity

Texas identity: alternatives to the terrible triplets / Walter Buenger

History, memory, and rebranding Texas as western for the 1936 centennial / Light Townsend Cummins

Texas before the Civil War

Jose Antonio Pichardo and the limits of Spanish Texas, 1803/1821 / Donald E. Chipman

Sam Houston, Indian agent / Carol A. Lipscomb

Stephen F. Austin's views on slavery in early Texas / Andrew J. Torget

Texas in Civil War and Reconstruction

Landholding in Brazos County, Texas: frontier, war, and Reconstruction / Carl H. Moneyhon

Spirits of disillusionment: soldiering on the Texas coast and the problem of Confederate nationalism / Andrew F. Lang

North Texans and Civil War amnesty: helpless instruments in the hands of rebellion? / Bradley R. Clampitt

Texas Reconstruction in popular memory: what really happened in Hill County in 1871 / Richard B. McCaslin

Texas and the new South

The roots of southern progressivism: Texas populists and the rise of a reform coalition in Milam County / Gregg Cantrell

African-American housing and health patterns in southwestern cities, 1865-1900 / Alwyn Barr

Populism and the poll tax in Cooke County, Texas / Mark Stanley

Texas and the twentieth century

Investing in urban: the Woman's Monday Club and the entrepreneurial elite of Corpus Christi, Texas / Jessica Brannon-Wranosky

Denton County, Texas, and the draft during the First World War / Gregory W. Ball

"Gente Decente": Tejanos Jovita González and Edmundo E. de Mireles / Harriett Denise Joseph, Alix Riviere, and Jordan Penner

National ideal meets local reality: grassroots war on poverty in Houston / Wesley G. Phelps

Contributors' biographies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-57441-517-4

1-299-16047-6

OCLC:

828793590